What's the story?

As a composer, one of my main interests is how coherence in music can be achieved, maintained, or avoided.

In classical music there are several devices which can be employed to achieve coherence, such as tonality, cadences and so on. This often leads to certain forms like sonata form, rondo form, which engender expectations in the listener. An expectation might be, that after a dominant comes the tonic, or that after a development section comes the reprise. In general, a certain decision of the composer is justified by what comes next, it decides if there is coherence or not. I call that a narration - a story, - which is based on coherent decisions.

But how to avoid narration but keep coherence? Philip Glass' famous opera "Einstein on the Beach", as well as other works by composers of minimal music, achieves this by employing repetitive patterns, which never narrate but keep coherence through the repetitions itself. 

I am inclined to find my own way to discard narration but keep coherence. My first choice is to use a string orchestra. It is, even more than the brass section, the most homogeneous section of the orchestra, though capable of lots of different playing techniques to generate different sounds. Thus I get a coherent and smooth sound with the possibility of making scratches to this glacial surface. 

We will see, what scratches that might be.